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Social worker   /sˈoʊʃəl wˈərkər/   Listen
Social worker

noun
1.
Someone employed to provide social services (especially to the disadvantaged).  Synonyms: caseworker, welfare worker.



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"Social worker" Quotes from Famous Books



... army man, had just died. She gave a remarkably correct, detailed, medical account of his suffering and death. In response to inquiry she told of a year's training as a nurse; that was how she knew about such subjects. In company with a social worker she went directly back to the hospital to make arrangements for what she requested, namely, a proper burial. At the hospital office it was said that no such person had died there, and after she had for a time insisted on it she finally said she must have been ...
— Pathology of Lying, Etc. • William and Mary Healy

... that at least such knowledge ought to be given in many families, where it would be to the advantage of society that fewer children be produced. Such a step, of course, must be taken on the individual responsibility of a doctor, nurse or other social worker. A propaganda has arisen during recent years, in the United States, for the repeal of all laws which prohibit giving knowledge about and selling contraceptives. Whether or not it succeeds in changing the law it will, ...
— Applied Eugenics • Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson



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